Device for holding and curling hair



Nov. 7, 1939.. 'A. E, FARRl-:LL 2,178,748

DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND CURLING HAIR Filed Dec. 25, 1958' 1NVENT0R. ANNA E. FARREL L ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 7, 1939 UNITED STATES iBATENT @FFME DEVCE FOR HOLDKNG AND CURLING HMB Anna E. Farrell, Seattle, Wash.

Application December 23, 1938, Serial No. 247,397

2 Claims.

This invention relates to devices for holding and curling hair, and particularly to such a device" formed from a pair of hair pins slidably connected therefor.

An object of the invention is to provide improvements upon and over devices described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 2,102,687, issued to me December 2, 1937, and to provide a device of light wire of few parts, and simpler and cheaper in construction than devices previously in use, and which will be more effective in operation.

lA particular object is to provide a device, formed of inexpensive material, comprising a pair of bent wire hair pins one wider between the legs than the other, and slidably connected together, whereby a lock of hair may be bound and rolled for curling, and then expanded, and latched on the head, and retracted in dimensions for easy removal from the curl without disturbing suchcurl formation.

A further object, is to provide a flexible device for gathering loose hair and for winding and binding the same in rolls for curl formations. The -said device preferably formed of a pair of members similar to open ended hair pins for holding hair, but one of said members with legs thereof spaced wider apart relatively than the legs of the other, and positioned outside the narrower spaced legs, with eyes on the free ends of the legs of the said outer and Wider pin, and the legs of the inner and narrower pin slidably mounted through said eyes, said outer member of substantially elongated U form and the inner pin of substantially elongated V form, whereby the outer legs will be expanded apart, and retracted toward each other when said inner legs are moved to and fro in said eyes, respectively.

With these and other objects, that may be hereinafter shown, I have illustratively exemplied my invention by the accompanying drawing, of which:

Figure 1 represents a diagrammatic view, with pins within rolls of hair in place on a head.

Figure 2 represents an edge View of the two pins together, and the end of a lock of hair as first positioned for winding.

Figure 3 represents an elevation of the assembled pins, in closed position for latching a roll or curl of hair between the same.

Figure 4 represents a cross section of the pins taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 3, with ends of the inner pin removed.

Figure 5 represents an elevation of the two pins, with a lock of hair wound over the larger pin,

and the inner pin withdrawn to position for inserting the point thereof beneath the roll of hair to prevent the same fromI unwinding, and the outer end of the inner pin broken away.

Figure 6 represents a top plan of the device, 5 in position on the side of a head, with a lock ofl hair rolled thereover, and the inner pin point projected beneath the hair and over the loop end of the larger pin, for retaining the roll of hair in position for a curl, and dotted line indi- 10 eating the position of the inner pin when used for picking up loose hair along the scalp after the roll has been formed over the device.

Like characters on the different figures represent like parts, The letter A, represents an outer hair pin member substantially in elongated U, formation, and B, represents an innermember or hair pin substantially elongated V, in form, and longer than the outer member. Both pins are preferably constructed of light flexible wire, which may be cut in suitable lengths from any source of supply, without any waste. The material being subject to shaping by bending, and to then retain such shapes normally, from inherent resiliency thereof, for which steel with semi spring action has been found suitable. The gauge of the wire need be no greater than one thirty second of an inch, and may be less, and when used in the hair on a head is practically invisible, and may be carried in place, both day and night without discomfort.

The outer pin is formed with a rounded head or loop l, for convenient use in the hair, and the legs 8 thereon are projected back a suitable dis` tance practically parallel with each other nor 35 mally.` .At the free ends of the legs are built eyes 9, preferably arranged at right angles with the legs and projected inward toward each other, and preferably slightly oblong, but with sufficient diameter at the narrowest central position to freely receive operative legs Si, slidably therein of an inner pin B, This inner pin is closed at the head end I2 by a sharper bend than the outer head l, to provide for insertion under or through a mass of hair; but presents a rounded point which may be pressed against the scalp without injury thereto, when necessary to gather up all the desired hair thereover, The legs Il are projected back from the head end l2 in diverging directions, and are slidably threaded or mounted through the eyes 9, and are extended beyond such eyes sufciently to provide a handle i3, for manipulating the device. The extended tips thereof, are preferably rounded towardv each other and closed as by a weld M, to prevent the two members or pins from becoming separated or lost from each other, and to prevent any stray hairs becoming tangled between such legs, or tips thereof.

The projection of the legs outward beyond the eyes, is more specially provided, to permit the head end to move forward, above or beneath, the rounded head l2 of the outer pin, for locking or latching a quantity of hair between the pins. The oval shape of the eyes facilitates lateral movement of the pairs of legs, for gathering hair between the same, and for clamping the same for curls, or for retaining the same in other desired forms. The side walls of the eyes provide fulcrums for such lateral actions, and the front and rear walls of the eyes provide guides for the inner legs when moved forward or backward therein.

Indents or corrugations as lil may be provided along the legs of the outer pin, for retaining the device in positions within a roll or coil of hair. It will be understood that when the inner V shaped or positioned legs il, are pressed forward through the eyes 9, that the side legs of the outer pin and corrugations along the same may be expanded within a coil of hair by the widening of legs Il. Again, when the inner pin is drawn outward, the narrowing of the inner legs, draws the outer legs toward each other, to facilitate the easy removal of the device from a roll or curl oi hair, without disturbing the formation thereof. The Xpansion or widening of the side legs of the outer pin, is important for stretching a mass or coil of hair tightly around the device, whereby the set of the hair in curl formation is improved and facilitated.

In use the operator, preferably partially withdraws the inner pin from the eyes, and depresses the point i2 and positions the same beneath the end of a lock of hair d, and then raises such point and clamps such hair end between both pins in parallel positions. The two pins are then rotated until the lock of hair is rolled around the device in close proximity to the head C. 'I'he A i inner pin is then suiciently withdrawn to free such hair, and then extended laterally, as indicated in dotted lines I l Fig. 6, and the point moved along the scalp in form indicated in i2', thus gathering all hairs beneath the roll of hair,

g meanwhile the inner pin is pressed forward along the scalp until the point thereof is adjacent and opposite to the closed end 'l of the outer pin. The flexible pins are then bent or flexed so that the inner point may be projected over and beyond the loop l, thus effectually binding the hair Within or between the two pins, and outside of the loop or curl of hair is positioned over the device, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 6. In event of such position with a heavy roll of hair, the device may be rendered generally invisible, while the curl is becoming set by the device, in expanded condition. On withdrawal of the inner pin as indicated in Fig. 5 the outer legs are drawn toward each other, thus narrowing the device, and facilitating the removal thereof from the curl.

Other methods of use may be suggested by ladies familiar with attempts at forming curls, and holding hair by pins, and while I have illustrated denite structure for a device, I do not limit my invention thereto, but desire to protect my invention broadly within the scope of the claims, and disclosures.

Having described my invention, I claim as new:

l. A device for holding, stretching, and curling hair, comprising, an out-er and an inner pair of legs, said outer pair of legs in substantially elongated U formation, open eyes on the free ends of the legs of such outer pair, said inner pair of legs in substantially elongated V formation, and greater in length than said outer pair, and slidably mounted through said eyes, and adapted for lateral and horizontal movements for binding the end of a lock of hair against said outer legs, and for expanding and retracting the space between said outer legs for tightening and loosening said outer legs within a coil of hair, and further adapted for latching one side of a roll of hair between said two pairs of legs and close to the head and scalp adjacent said hair. v

2. A device of the structure described in the foregoing claim, with corrugations along said outer pair of legs, adapted to be driven outward into a roll of hair thereover when said outer legs are expanded and to prevent said device from shifting within a roll of hair thereover, the ends of said inner legs projected outward from said eyes, for handles for manipulating the device, and the outer tips of said inner legs attached t0- gether to prevent hairs from entering between the legs thereof and to prevent the separation and ioss of one oi pair of legs from the other.

ANNA E. FARRELL. 

